Course Description
Creating costumes for performance. Includes methods, uses, and procedures for budgeting, sewing, patterning, and techniques for the use of craft supplies/materials, fabrics, and tools. Study and experience in methods of notetaking for costume fittings, production meetings, and rehearsals will be examined.
Athena Title
Costume Crafts
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To provide training in basic skills in sewing, patterning, and fitting of costumes. To create an awareness of standard use of tools and materials in safe and appropriate manner. To provide examples and experience in creative problem-solving, planning, and budgeting regarding the interpretation of costumes from the scripted idea to use of the costume in performance. To develop a vocabulary and skill in the communication required between designer, technician, director, and actor regarding costumes.
Topical Outline
Exploration of the difference between costumes and clothes: The design idea Hand sewing, repairs Machine sewing, alterations Patterns, patterning, and the creative impulse Sewing project by design How to get a costume: Pull, buy, build, rentals Budgets, happy accidents, and unhappy surprises Fittings: interaction with performers and others, notetaking, marking the garment Dyeing, distressing, and hot glue Glues, paints, and decorative elements Stage blood and makeup, hats, and hair Wardrobe organization and upkeep The technical week experience: Rehearsal, notes, meetings, changes